Ruth Paris

Education

BA (psychology and sociology), Clark University
MSW, Smith College
PhD (social welfare) University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health

Courses Taught

CP 759 Introduction to Clinical Social Work Practice
CP 781 Clinical Social Work Assessment and Intervention
CP 785 Family Therapy
SR 904 Quantitative Clinical Research Methods

Scholarly Practice Interests

Therapeutic interventions for parents and young children; cross-cultural parenting; care giving over the life course; mixed methods research; family therapy practice and research

Paris, R., DeVoe, E. R., Ross, A.M., & Acker, M. (2010). When a parent goes to war: Effects of parental deployment on very young children and implications for intervention. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80(4), 610-618.

Ross, A.M., Maynard, E., & Paris, R. (2012, January). Situated Mothering: The experience and role transformation of non-deployed military mothers. Paper presented as part of a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.

Paris, R., Ross, A.M., Bruder, K., & DeVoe, E.R. (2012, January). When a baby is born during deployment: Experiences of mothers in military families. Paper presented as part of a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.

Bryant, S., Paris, R., DeVoe, E.R. (2012, January). Partner attunement In military couples: Assessing empathic and behavioral responses during the deployment cycle. Paper presented as part of a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.

Acker, M., Paris, R., & DeVoe, E.R., (2011, December). Strong Families Strong Forces on the ground: Home-based work with military families with very young children. Paper presentation at the Zero to Three National Training Institute, Washington, DC.

Paris, R., Goldberg, J., Gould, K., Spielman, E., Finkelstein, N. (2011, March). Trauma, substance abuse, and parenting: Early findings from a study of mothers with young children in substance abuse treatment. Chair, paper presentation and symposium convener at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

DeVoe, E.R., Paris, R., Acker, M., Lester, P., Mogil, C., & Cozza, S. (2010, November). Young children in US military families: How are they doing and what are we doing about it? Panel presentation at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Montreal, Canada.

Paris, R., DeVoe, R., Spencer, R., & Ross, A. (January, 2010). Military families with youngchildren: Facing the challenges of deployment and reintegration. Presentation at the annualmeeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Francisco, CA. (moderator and symposium convener)

Paris, R., DeVoe, E., & Acker, M. (December, 2009). Servicing military families with young children:Preliminary findings from the development of a home-based reintegration program. Presentation at the National Training Institute of Zero To Three, Dallas, TX.

Paris, R., Bolton, R.E., & Weinberg, M. K. (April, 2009). Early Connections” intervention for depressedmothers and infants: Program description and outcomes. Presentation at the Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO (chair and symposium convener).

Bolton, R. & Paris, R. (2008, October). Symptom reduction among women enrolled in a dyadic home-based therapeutic intervention for postpartum depression. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA.

Paris, R., Weinberg, M.K. & Bolton, R. (2008, January). Postpartum depression and mother-infantinteractions: Findings from a study of a home-based therapeutic intervention. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.

Paris, R., Bolton, R., & Lee, J. (2008, January). Understanding how a home-based therapeutic intervention helps women with postpartum depression and their infants. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.

Paris, R. (2008, October). Dislocation and trauma: Lessons learned from immigrant mothers in a home visiting program. Presentations at the Boston University School of Social Work and School of Education Institute on Immigrants and Refugees, Boston, MA.

Paris, R. (2008, April). ’For the dream of being here one sacrifices…:’ Voices of immigrant mothers in a home visiting program. Presentation at the symposium, Home Visiting Initiatives Across Cultures and Continents, Greater Boston Jewish Family and Children’s Service, Waltham, MA.

Paris, R., Weinberg, K., & Bolton, R. (2007, December). Mood disorders and mother-infant interactions: Early findings from a study of a home-based therapy. Presentation at the National Training Institute of Zero to Three, Orlando, FL.

Paris, R. (2007), March). Immigrant/refugee mothers in a home-visiting program: Stories of loss, isolation and adaptation. Poster presented at the Society for Research of Child Development, Boston, MA.

Paris, R. (2006, December). Voices of immigrant mothers: Experiences of Latina participants in a home-visiting program. Presentation at the National Training Institute of Zero to Three, Albuquerque, NM.

Spielman, E., Kaufman, P., Paris, R. (2006, July). A multi-modal program for treating depressed new mothers, their babies and partners: What is it we do and how do we know? Workshop presented at the World Association for Infant Mental Health, Paris, France.

Selected Grant Activity

Principal Investigator of Boston University Sub-contract. (2009-2012). Funder: SAMHSA (IU79SM059460-01). Building Resilience Through Intervention: Growing Healthier Together (Project BRIGHT), (PI: Norma Finkelstein, Ph.D., Institute for Health and Recovery, $1,200,000). To evaluate Project BRIGHT, an evidence-based, trauma-informed program for parents in treatment for Substance Use Disorders and their young children.

Co-Investigator. (2008-2012). Family-Based Intervention With Traumatized Service Members and Their Young Children. Grant from the Department of Defense (PT074928), $1,583,844. The primary goal of this research project is to develop and test the effect of a family-based intervention designed to mitigate the adverse impact of PTSD in soldiers returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) on the soldier parent-child relationship. (PI: Ellen DeVoe, MSW, Ph.D.)

Principal Investigator. (2005-2008): Primary Prevention for Very Young Children: Studying the Intervention Methods of a Home-Based Parent-Infant Treatment. Two year grant from the Centers for Women at Wellesley College to evaluate a home-based treatment for women with postpartum mood disorders and their infants.

Principal Investigator. (2005-2007): Evaluation of a Home-Based Clinical Intervention for Women with Postpartum Mood Disorders and their Infants, Two year grant from The Silberman Fund, New York Community Trust to evaluate the effectiveness of a therapeutic program for women with postpartum mood disorders and their infants by using a multi-method assessment of the mother’s functioning, infant behavior, and mother-infant interactions before and after the intervention.

Three year grant funded by the Jesse du Pont Family Foundation to evaluate the efficacy of psycho-social interventions with at-risk immigrant and refugee mothers of infants at a Harvard affiliated health center.